Hi Dale,

Dale S. Johnson writes :

Sorry; I think I asked this once but lost the answer:

Where in RIPE documentation does anything describe how to use the "delete:" attribute? (Both for us, so we know what it really wants, and even more for the users who keep asking us).

From the source code (Probably most definitive ;-)):

"delete attribute must contain email address and reason for delete" I cannot find any document describing it. May be anybody else knows documentation ? Marten/Tony ? I proposed the RIPE community a new whois flag combination. We now have : $ whois -t aut-num aut-num: [mandatory] [single] as-name: [optional] [single] descr: [mandatory] [multiple] as-in: [optional] [multiple] [..] I proposed to the RIPE database working group the new (verbose) combination : $ whois -tv aut-num aut-num: [mandatory] [single] The 'aut-num' objects describes the ... Syntax: as-name: [optional] [single] The 'as-name' attributes describes the ... Syntax: ... I think most people liked this idea and it should solve this never ending story about 'what is this object/attribute for ???' When I have time I will start implementing this. Kind regards, David Kessens RIPE NCC Database maintainer